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On the menu: Classical on the rocks; Newsom unveils Texas revenge package; Brown in; Where do you put 653 House members?; A dumpling for a bear  There are many kinds of bias in the news business, but few as durable and reliable as New Yorkism: the outsized place that news happening in America’s media capital…
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You could practically hear the cheering on Thursday as critics of President Trump finally got what they’ve waited months for — some indication that tariffs might (finally!) drive prices higher.  Yesterday’s Producer Price Index report showed wholesale prices jumped 0.9 percent over the last month, the biggest gain since June 2022. It followed another benign…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday tapped the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief to serve as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” a move to wrest power from the district’s current police chief amid the Trump administration’s law enforcement takeover. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will now assume “all of the powers and duties” of D.C. Police Chief…
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In today’s issue: ▪ Trump: Agenda with Putin ‘like chess’   ▪ AG Bondi federalizes DC police control    ▪ States’ redistricting arms race escalates ▪ Trump shores up Social Security support Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for…
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President Trump is set to depart Washington just after the sun rises, headed west for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in years and one that will set the tone for the future of peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting at an Air Force base just outside Anchorage, Alaska, came together…
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President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday could shape the future of Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine — for better or worse. Trump has made ending the war a priority focus in his second term, but Putin has been a brick wall, refusing any concessions toward peace and only increasing…
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President Trump says he’s open to following through on former President Biden’s push to reschedule marijuana, a move that comes up short of legalization but would still provide a major boost for the cannabis industry.  Trump reportedly told donors this month he was considering rescheduling marijuana, and in a press conference this week he said…
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The faculty of the University of California scored a victory for the Los Angeles branch campus against the White House, the first win for a university individually targeted by the federal government.    A judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the more than $550 million the president paused after the federal government found the University of California,…
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Trump promised during his campaign that he would end Russia’s war on Ukraine on his first day back in office, which is now 207 days ago.

Trump said he would “do everything I can to save” the founder of the Apple Daily newspaper that was forced to close in 2021.

The comedian used one survey’s “totally unsurprising” findings to take aim at the president.

The “Late Night” host flagged what the MAGA movement just wants to “whine about” on Fox News.

President Trump said on Thursday that he would like to see foreign journalists granted access to the Gaza Strip by Israel.  “I’d like to see that happen, sure,” the president told reporters at the White House.  “I would be very fine with journalists going. And it’s a very dangerous position to be in, as you…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi rolled back several policies that previously curtailed officers’ ability to work with federal immigration agents.

Harry Enten said Trump is “towering over” Joe Biden like “Air Jordan” on the issue.

The POTUS’ dig at Warren came after she called out the Trump administration in an op-ed for Fox News.

After Charlie Kirk claimed that the president is the same in private as he is in public, numerous social media critics noted that it “isn’t the flex” he thinks it is.

Considering the president’s fragile ego, he likely won’t shake it off.

Are there any limits on President Donald Trump’s push to send troops into states that don’t want them? A judge will soon decide.

Hunter Biden claimed in an interview that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced the first lady to her now-husband, Donald Trump, which the Trumps say is false.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claimed that the White House was trying to intimidate elected officials at a Thursday press conference as federal agents turned up at the media event and arrested at least one individual.  “The White House just sent federal agents to try to intimidate elected officials at a press conference. The…
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Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration. “All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do…
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Ukraine launched drone attacks on cities in southern Russia, killing one person and injuring at least 16 more — just a day before President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.  A Ukrainian drone hit an apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, injuring 13 people who were transferred to medical facilities for treatment, according to…
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“It’s everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the president of the United States,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said of Trump on Thursday.

Navarro isn’t holding back.